LOCAL STUDIES presents the work of swiss photographer Joël Tettamanti.
The frequent traveler and an eclectic observer Tettamanti travels to places as far away and remote as Greenland and Lesotho
or high up into the mountains. He is the one who sees, what others will only realise once his images appear on magazine pages
or gallery walls. He has the rare eye and understanding for the insignificant.

Tettamantis work is joined by a selection of texts from 6 different authors - Barbara Bleisch, Angelus Eisinger, Cathy Larqué,
Raphaëlle Stopin, Uli Winters, Juliane Zöller - who were asked to write personal, assiciative pieces about issues relevant in the
photographs. Issues such as snow, mountains, love and failure. Furthermore visual reactions to Tettamantis work were contributed
by fulguro., Geoffrey Cottenceau / Romain Rousse and Maurice Scheltens.

With Die Rückkehr der Physiognomie etc publications contributes for the third time to the program of swiss photography festival
Bieler Fototage 2006 in Switzerland.
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